Baku-APA. UN Secretary-General Ban Ki- moon has spoken with Australian new Prime Minister Kevin Rudd and expressed appreciation of the country's partnership with the United Nations, a UN spokesman told reporters here Thursday, APA reports quoting Xinhua.
Ban spoke Wednesday with Rudd and wishes him well, and expressed appreciation, in particular, for Australia's strong support to the UN's work on global issues of common concern, including climate change and sustainable development, the spokesman said in a note emailed to the press.
Rudd has reassumed the leadership of the Australian Labor Party and consequently becomes the Australian prime minister for the second time, three years after he was himself deposed by Julia Gillard, the country's first female prime minister, and with a divided nation just months away from a federal election.
Rudd won a party ballot 57 votes to 45.
The Australian labor government has been beset by seismic internal power struggles which have been played out in the polls and culminated in the ballot after the announcement Wednesday of the sudden retirement of two key independents Rob Oakeshott and Tony Windsor who both propped up the minority Gillard government through most major policy decisions.
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